Leave it to a young Lance Corporal to cut thru the BS & give it to you straight.
Wow.. That's deep“They’re not willing to do the job it takes to defend their country,” said Lance Cpl. Lucas McGary, a rifleman with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. “They’re so worthless that their worthlessness doesn’t faze anyone anymore.”
All that same team stuff is 1st & foremost, but sometimes you need to hear if your a steamy pile o'shh..
It reminds me of what a LCpl/fireteam ldr told Maj Gen Natonski, MEF Fwd Cmdr Iraq, in a pacified Fallujah. This was after Natonski got caught in a firefight while leading a media tour. The insurgents fled into a building & Natonski jumped in the young team ldr's stack to "help" clear the building.
After clearing a reporter asked how'd it feel to have a selfless leader willing to lay it down & shoulder the same risk. The reporter was expecting some form of Adoration, but the young Tm Ldr just looked at Natonski & said he was a little too old & overpaid to make a good LCpl and walked off pissed w/the rest of his fireteam.
When asked if he was offended Natonski said no he would've been more offended by a Marine too afraid to speak his mind.
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